How to fix an alternator and save big $$

DIY Alternator Repair!Raw materials, parts, even cardboard – everything’s in short supply these days!

So, what do you do when your alternator is dying and you can’t even find a new one?

Why, you repair it yourself!

While it may seem like this is way beyond your ability, it turns out it’s not so difficult.

With a few tips and a bit of patience and persistence, you can DIY your alternator back into like-new working condition!

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Dirty Electricity: What it is and how to fix it

What is Dirty Electricity?While everyone is paying the most attention to wireless tech like 5G, dirty electricity is often completely overlooked.

In short, all our wondrous gizmos generate noise that couples to the human body from the electrical wiring in our homes, schools, places of work, and so on.

What effects does this dirty electricity have? Well, it ain’t pretty.

Fortunately, there are simple filters you can get that reduce the dangers from this type of noise.

Join me for a look at DE – and get clean power!

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mmWave Madness: No, you’re not crazy!

mmWave Madness!Ah, 5G… It’s a mixture of new technologies, the most “interesting” being mmWave, or millimeter wave.

If you’re wondering if a particular phone actually HAS mmWave, good luck figuring it out.

Even worse, in most areas it’s darn near impossible to find out what flavor of 5G is being used: Is it mmWave, or not?!

Good luck with that one, too.

And to top it all off, it doesn’t really matter anyway because even official government bodies are really looking at 5G and EXISTING wireless tech, and starting to get worried…

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The Hidden Dangers of 5G & wireless tech

5G Hidden DangersA friend recently bought a new 5G smartphone. She was worried about the ‘5G’ part especially. Two problems:

First, there is no 5G where we live, so I just turned it off.

Second, the 5G Samsung phone only supports lower frequencies than our local 4G network – IOW, no millimeter wave!

Of course, it’s about more than just frequency. In reality, it’s about way more than just the technologies involved.

There is a hidden danger to worrying TOO MUCH about the effects of our wireless wonderland…

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QUICK FIX: No more Snagit Mic Error!

Snagit unable to record FIX!Video captures are pretty easy with Snagit. There’s only one problem: That dreaded ‘No Mic’ error!

It’s almost made Snagit infamous instead of famous.

Solutions abound, but THIS one actually works.

It’ll cost you a few bucks, but the same trick works with other video and video capture software.

Which probably means it’s a Windows issue in the end, but whatever…

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You’re using your A/C WRONG!

You're using your A/C WRONG!!Common wisdom dictates that you’re supposed to use your air conditioning in a certain way.

Let it warm up during the day or when you’re not at home. If you’re really hot, turn it way, WAY down and it’ll magically cool faster!

How you use your A/C depends on who you listen to…  And on that front, you probably want to listen to the people who design, install, and maintain A/C.

Because while scientific theories are great, practical realities back down here on Earth are better!

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3 Easy ways to make screen recordings

3 Easy Screen Recording methodsTaking screen captures is pretty easy. But what about VIDEO captures?

It might seem like you need a PhD in computer science, but it turns out that recording a video of a single window or your desktop is VERY easy these days.

Here are 3 easy ways to do screen recording on your puter, and the first one won’t cost you a penny!

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No more choppy video in VLC!

VLC choppy video fixVLC media player is free, popular, and just awesome. It’ll play just about any audio or video file you throw at it.

Beginning in version 3.0.0, it supports hardware acceleration so that it should play even hi-res vids smoothly.

But quite often when you try to play a 4K (2160p) video, the playback stutters and is basically unwatchable.

What gives??

Turns out there’s a very simple fix that works 95% of the time! And it’ll take you all of about 10 seconds to do it…

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Is Chrome spying on you?

Chrome Software Reporter ToolChrome is a fantastic web browser – except when it eats all your CPU power and crashes your puter.

What’s going on here? I thought Chrome was lean, mean, and zippy?

Well, it IS… But the Software Reporter Tool that it downloads and runs to scan your computer “for evil add-ons” may be up to more than just making sure Chrome runs well (which is hilarious, since it ends up crashing the puters of so many of us!).

Whatever… How do you turn the dang thing OFF?!

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